That was the idea: for a few beings to first attain, here in this physical world, a level of realization giving them the power to materialize a supramental being. I once told you I put a body on a vital being[[. This story is also part of the lost treasures of 1957 or 1958. ]] - but I couldn't have made that body material; it would have been impossible: something is lacking. Something is lacking. Even if it were made visible, it would probably not be possible to make it permanent - at the slightest opportunity, it would dematerialize. What we can't get is that permanence. It's something Sri Aurobindo and I have discussed ("discussed" is one way of putting it), something we spoke about, and his view was the same as mine: there is a power, yes, to FIX the form here on earth, a power we don't have. Even people with the ability to materialize things (like Madame Théon, for instance) can't make their materializations last; it can't be done, they don't last - they don't have the quality of physical things. And without this quality, well ... the creation's continuity could not be assured. Yes, that's an interesting point. One might indeed wonder about it. I knew the whole occult procedure in detail, but I would never have been able to make that being more material, even if I had tried - visible, yes, but not permanent and progressive. And mind you (this is my personal case), I don't think I have wasted any time. Because you might say that had I known forty years ago what I know now - at the age of forty instead of eighty - well, there would have been the sense of a lot more time to work with. But I haven't been wasting time. I haven't wasted any time. All that time was necessary to get me where I am today. I don't think I've been going slowly. As I told you last time, I had the most wonderful conditions, those thirty years with Sri Aurobindo - as wonderful as could be. I haven't wasted my time. Oh, it was hour by hour! It is a long, drawn-out work. He used to say it would take at least three hundred years - so there's been no time lost. To begin with, the body needs something that will allow it to last three hundred years. page 42-43 , Mother's Agenda , volume 3 12th Jan 1962